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Melitta 1x4

Prime Roast Single Cup

Melitta 1x4 Misc pourover by Melitta

Prime Roast Coffee's single-cup recipe adapts the roomy Melitta 1x4 to a smaller serving with continuous circular pours. Controlled movement from center outward promotes even extraction and a full, balanced cup without papery flavors.

1:16.8 Ratio
3:00 Total
22g Dose
96°C Temp
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Parameters

22 g
Coffee
370 g
Water
1:16.8
Ratio
96 °C
Temp
4 medium-fine
Grind
3:00
Total
~370 ml
Yield
Grind · 4/10 · fine-medium
FINE COARSE

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Method

3:00 · total

Before you brew

  1. 1 Rinse the filter and preheat the brewer thoroughly with hot water.
  1. Bloom 1 / 5
    0:00
    30s

    Pour 50g in an outward spiral for the bloom. Keep the stream over the coffee bed and off the filter. Let it bloom.

    +50g→ 50g Spiral outward 5g/s 10s 96°C
  2. Pour 2 / 5
    0:30
    30s

    Pour 100g to 150g in an outward spiral, keeping the stream over the coffee bed.

    +100g→ 150g Spiral outward 5g/s 20s
  3. Pour 3 / 5
    1:00
    30s

    Pour 110g to 260g in an outward spiral, keeping the stream over the coffee bed.

    +110g→ 260g Spiral outward 5g/s 22s
  4. Pour 4 / 5
    1:30
    1m30s

    Pour the final 110g to 370g in an outward spiral, keeping the stream over the coffee bed. Cover the whole coffee bed evenly.

    +110g→ 370g Spiral outward 5g/s 22s
  5. Done 5 / 5
    3:00

    Finish when the coffee stops dripping.

Notes

Rinse a Melitta #4 paper well, use a medium-fine grind, and keep the continuous circles off the filter wall. If the cup is sour, increase temperature or grind finer; if flow stalls in the large cone, coarsen first.

Original source

Recipe by Melitta, published at primeroastcoffee.com.

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